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US 11,898,259 B2Granted
Electrochemical CO2 conversion
AssigneeVito NV
InventorsMaximilian Konig, Metin Bulut, Jan Vaes, Elias Klemm, Deepak Pant
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Abstract
The present invention is related to the electrochemical conversion of CO2 and provides the use of Gas Diffusion Electrode with an aprotic solvent in such conversion of CO2 as well as an electrochemical cell for use in such conversion. The application and electrochemical cell as herein provided are particularly useful in the conversion of CO2 into oxalate/oxalic acid.
Claims20
An electrochemical cell for the electrochemical conversion of CO2, said electrochemical cell comprising:
- (a) a gas diffusion electrode as a cathode;
- (b) a gaseous CO2 inlet to the gas diffusion electrode;
- (c) a supporting electrolyte in an aprotic solvent as a catholyte;
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- (d) an anode,
- wherein the electrochemical cell is a single-chamber electrochemical cell.
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